At Red Diamond Labs we dont believe in Spaying Too young but we do believe in spaying your female if she is not a breeding female after her first or 2nd heat cycle or as soon as she is done in your breeding programs.
This is Diamonds Story
On 11/05/13 my 9 year 7 month old intact female Diamond who never had a litter she was just our pet, wouldn’t eat which was not normal for her but I wasn’t overly concerned. Around 11 am she vomited but still acted normal but had a small fever of 102. She had just had a heat cycle 2 weeks ago. I noticed she was doing alot of licking so I thought I better investigate. I noticed a bad discharge white creamy looking. My first thought and only thought was pyometra. In 11 years of breeding I have never seen pyrometra but had tons of breeder friends that had so I had knowledge of the warning sings. I rushed her to the vet and all my fears were confirmed. She immediately went in for emergency surgery, they told me her chances werent good if it was a closed Pyrometra but if it was open which they felt it was her chances of survival were better. This happened so fast. Pyometra may occur in young to middle-aged dogs; however, it is most common in older dogs. After many years of estrus cycles without pregnancy, the uterine wall undergoes the changes that promote this disease.
The typical time for pyometra to occur is about two to eight weeks after estrus (“heat cycle”).The chance of successful treatment without surgery or prostaglandin treatment is extremely low. If treatment is not performed quickly, the toxic effects from the bacteria will be fatal. If the cervix is closed, it is also possible for the uterus to rupture, spilling the infection into the abdominal cavity. This will also be fatal.
Diamond survived the surgery waiting to hear from the vet this morning. We choose not to spay Diamond earlier in her life because when she was 1 she broke her leg that required 2 surgeries and she had a severe adverse reaction to the anesthesia and had to be revived on the table both times. NO EXCUSE . I blame myself for not weighing out the complications for not spaying her. The second picture is very graphic but this was her uterus that they removed.
Graphic Picture of Diamonds uterus full of Pyo
